Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 588 Weides Mountain Harbor Attack

By mid-May, Claude had some spare time and no trivial duties, so he turned his attention to the colonies on the West Coast. At present, the colonies of the West Coast countries have become a deadlock. When the autonomous region commanded the alliance with the Pamigar National Republic and sent the Thunder Army to the news, the colonial countries on the West Coast understood that they had not intervened in Palestine. The reason for the Migals.

At this time, the offensive against the Pamigar National Republic was simply a declaration of war against the Autonomous Command. No one would do such a stupid thing. As a result, these colonial nations on the West Coast have put up their minions and no longer look at the colonies of other countries. Instead, they have started to build defensive fronts and defensive positions in their colonies. All of them are harmless, self-defense The defense looked as if they had sent two or three standing legions to the colony just for defensive defense.

Mr. Wilbur formed a trade mission to the West Coast colonies in February and is ready to discuss tariffs and trade bans on the entry of Dominion goods into these colonies. It took only three months for this economic and trade group to make a circle in the colonies of the West Coast countries and received a warm welcome from the colonial authorities. However, the issue of the ban on trade was still not lifted, and the goods and goods produced by overseas dominions were not lifted. Still unable to officially enter the colonial markets of the West Coast ...

A governor of the colonies and provinces made it clear to Mr. Wilbur that hospitality is a personal friendship, and we are friends. But the ban on trade is the principle of the kingdom. Once the ban on trade is lifted to you, the workshops of our kingdom and those monopolized by the aristocracy of the kingdom will be destroyed. The goods produced by the kingdom will not be able to reap huge profits from the colonies, and no one can afford such consequences, so we would rather risk the offense of your dominion, but also implement a ban on trade and refuse your goods and commodities at the colonial market gates. outer......

Well, the economic and trade mission organized by Mr. Wyberon went to the colonies of the West Coast countries and only gained the personal friendship of the chiefs of these colonial authorities. He wanted to lift the embargo on merchandise from overseas autonomous territories but hit a nail. After returning, Mr. Wilbur spoke in Parliament, believing that unless the West Coast colonial countries were completely defeated by the military, they would never lift the ban on trade and open the colonial market to overseas dominions.

Claude also hoped to do the same with the West Coast colonies. The problem is that the autonomous region must find the right excuses before it can go to war. There is no reason for the Autonomous Territory to send troops based on a ban on trade, because the ban on trade protects the goods produced in their own kingdom, and it is reasonable to issue them in order to avoid competition with the goods produced by overseas dominions. The autonomous region cannot be sold because someone cannot sell it in someone else's house. This will not be so overbearing ...

No one is a fool, as are the colonial nations of the West Coast. When the Autonomous Leadership Area allied with the Pamigars, leased its naval port, and sent the Thunder Corps to its borders, the black-handed Autonomous Leadership Area came to the front as the behind-the-scenes support for the indigenous riots and the independence of the indigenous peoples. Everyone knew it, but no one shouted loudly to blame the autonomous region. The so-called success of the king is the case.

The unlucky ones were the lost kingdoms of the kingdom of Morosík, the Kingdom of Resniya and the Duchy of Vasilico. Other West Coast colonial countries have accepted the lessons of these three countries, strengthened the supervision and control of indigenous peoples in their colonies, and of course, also issued some benefits to appease the indigenous peoples, and at the same time allowed the colonial garrison troops to make borders. Preparedness, set up a complete defensive front and defensive positions in case of an attack by the enemy ...

Claude and the senior staff of the autonomous region commanded a look around, and found that the colonies in the West Coast countries did not have much opportunity to take advantage of them. All of them were very tightly guarded against the autonomous region, and they stopped thinking about doing something. Anyway, the most important thing for the autonomous command zone this year is to settle down. Eight Hicks returned to the hometown division to cut back and retire. The remaining hundreds of thousands of Hicks military immigrants must be resettled. Therefore, the autonomous command zone can wait until next year to slowly compete with the West Coast colonial countries ...

However, sometimes it happened unexpectedly. One night at the end of May, the Weeds Sea Harbour Colony in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands was suddenly attacked and plundered by countless pirate groups. It had just arrived and stayed in a harbor in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. The sailing fleet was preliminarily robbed and divided by the pirates. When most seamen and sailors landed a happy night, these large sailing ships without much defense quickly fell into the hands of these swarming pirate groups ...

About fifty or sixty good sailing warships fell into the hands of these pirate gangs, and the remaining forty transport ships were all set alight by these pirate gangs who came to attack. In other words, the four prestigious naval fleets of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands were so inexplicably lost by one of the pirates, and even the Wade Mountain Harbour Colony, which took them to be built into a shipbuilding base, was also given by the pirates. Looting ...

The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands is very annoyed, as if they were slapped in the face by pirates. The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, traditionally known as a maritime power, has four powerful sailing fleets, and no pirate dares easily offend their maritime strength and dignity. Generally speaking, ocean-going merchant ships that usually carry the flag of the United Kingdom Navy Fleet in the Fox Islands are rarely intercepted and attacked by pirate groups.

But no one expected that this time the pirate gang would join together to work on a sailing fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, not only successfully dividing up the sailing ships in its fleet, but also plundering the shipbuilding base of their kingdom. The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands suffered an extraordinary loss, and immediately sent two powerful sailing fleets to the waters of the Nubari Islands to look for the troubles of the pirate gang and try to find out who was the culprit in planning the raid .... ..

Claude also did not expect that he would face such a trouble. At that time, he just talked about it, thinking that the other party was afraid to accept the move. I didn't expect to despise the other party. After severing the contact with the other party, the other party planned such an amazing attack, which destroyed the naval fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. Now the other party demands to fulfill their promise and hand over the six iron armored warships to them ...

"This is really an attack planned by Eriksson?" Claude asked with a grin, and asked General Bokal standing in front of himself.

General Bokal nodded |: "This is the third time you have asked this question, Claude. The third time I am sure, it must be Eriksson's Blacksail Pirates brought together the remaining thirteen pirate groups and carried them together Attack on the Wade Mountain Harbour colony. For those pirate groups, obtaining a regular sailing ship is a good thing they dream of. And this sailing fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands has given these pirates a godsend. opportunity......

Eriksson said that he has been paying attention to the Weedes Seaport colony in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands since the previous year, because this colony is a relatively rare mineral resource collection site on the West Coast. If it can be hijacked here, A transport vessel full of gold, silver and precious minerals means that all pirates involved will make a fortune.

It was only that Eriksson soon discovered that the minerals mined in the colony were no longer shipped to the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, but were stored in warehouses. At the same time, the colonial authorities also called for personnel to carry out planning for seaport construction and town construction. With Eriksson's ability, he soon enquired that the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands was preparing to vigorously develop this Wade Mountain harbour colony and build it into their iron armoured warship production base ...

Since then, Eriksson has invested a lot of energy in this Weidsberg harbour colony and laid down many men in ambush. Even the colonial authority in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands did not know that the captain of the smuggling ship, which was famous in the harbour town, was actually the leader of the well-known Blacksail Pirate Erikson, and they were successfully concealed.

Then Eriksson noticed that the biggest defense weakness of this Wade Mountain harbour colony was tight outer and inner pine, especially the night when a sailing fleet of the Fox Islands United Kingdom arrived at the colony and anchored in the harbour, almost half of it Sailors and sailors would go ashore and use women and spirits to revel in and reward their loneliness on warships.

If at this time you can control the twelve coastal artillery positions on the hills outside the harbour, and control the lighthouse to not sound a bell alarm for pirate attacks, let the pirate ships outside enter. Then there is no need to guess. The sailing fleet moored in the harbour is finished. It is not clear whether the sailors on the ship can gather the sailors of a ship. They are not the opponents of pirates like wolf-like tigers. .

The harbour towns and shipbuilding bases are like turkeys that have been shaved, and in the face of a warship with a large number of artillery, any resistance cannot persist for too long. Eriksson was convinced that the attack he planned would bring him unusually rich profits. Because he saw with his own eyes the people of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands drove two iron armored warships into the shipbuilding base, and began to imitate four iron armored warships. In other words, there are six iron armored warships in this shipbuilding base ... "

"Then what? Did Erickson get these six armored ships?" Claude asked.

General Bokal nodded: "It had to be, but Eriksson found that he had obtained only the hulls of six armored warships, which had not been equipped with steam-powered machinery. The Fox Islands experts and several at the shipbuilding base A rune mage admits that they are also stumped by the material of this ship's steam-powered machinery, and are being tested and copied, but no results have been achieved. Eriksson had to tow these experts and the hulls of six iron armored warships. .....

Now Eriksson sent someone to me and asked me to tell you to let you fulfill your previous promise to him. You once said that if Eriksson's Blacksail Pirates actively attacked and destroyed a sailing fleet in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, you would transfer the six generations of iron armored warships staying in the harbor to the Blacksail Pirates. Now that Eriksson's Blacksail Pirates and other pirate gangs have overwhelmed a sailing fleet in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, when will your ironclad warships be handed over to them? "

Claude hesitated: "Boa, do you think it is appropriate to hand over Ironclad warships to Eriksson? I worry that our Autonomous Territory will be damaged by pirates' counterattack ..."

General Bokal nodded: "I didn't speak for Eriksson, but I think the current situation, and the addition of Eriksson's Blacksail Pirates, may bring a lot of unexpected changes to the West Coast. The autonomous region is gratifying, it is better than this stalemate. Iron armored ships can be transferred to Eriksson, but we need to find a way for the black sail pirates to cleverly obtain these six iron armored ships, can not let people The misunderstanding was the voluntary transfer from our autonomous command zone to the black pirates ... "

Claude tapped his finger on the table and groaned for a while: "Let ’s think about it. You have Ericson wait patiently for three days, and by the way ask the six ships he got from the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. Does the armor of an armored ship need to be modified? If possible, we can help him to transform it into a practical armored ship ... "

The Blacksail Pirates under the command of Eriksson brought together other pirate groups to successfully attack and plunder the Weedsand Seaport Colony in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, and destroyed and divided up a full sail fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. This record really made Eriksson and Blacksail Pirates famous at once. The two sailing fleets of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands went to the waters of the Nubari Islands to find pirates. They wanted to find the trail and whereabouts of the black sail pirates.

Whether to transfer the eliminated six generations of iron armored warships to the Blacksail Pirates, the officers in the autonomous region's headquarters who are eligible to participate in the discussion of this incident are divided. In the end, General Beechklin convinced the senior officers present and made the final decision.

General Beechklin believes that currently Eriksson and Blacksail Pirates have become the deadly enemies of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. The two sailing fleets are searching for their whereabouts, and the rest of the pirate groups that have been struck by their own safety also hate Airy. Corson and the Blacksail Pirates are in the bones, and if they have the news, they will surely hand them over to the Navy of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands.

Under such circumstances, the strength of the Black Sail Pirates under the command of Eriksson will be strengthened, so that they can compete with the sail fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, or be able to give the sail fleet a heavy blow again. Then the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands cannot continue to dominate the sea. Once their two sailing fleets retreat from war, their three colonies on the West Coast will be at risk, and they will easily become fat in the eyes of other colonial countries ... ...

As for whether the Blacksail Pirates own ironclad warships will pose a threat to the shipping of the Dominion, General Beechklin thinks that there is no need to worry about this. First, the navy of the autonomous region is equipped with updated iron armored warships, which can completely crush them in quantity and quality. The second is that the Black Sail Pirates can only rely on the autonomous region to modify and repair iron armored warships. As long as they are sober, they will not offend the autonomous region without reason.

Claude decided to give Eriksson a chance. He promised to hand over six generations of ironclad warships to the Blacksail Pirates, and said that he could obtain the hulls of the six ironclad warships that the Blacksail Pirates could obtain from the Wade Mountain Seaport Shipbuilding Base. Reconstruction and repairs were only reported at a high price of 100,000 kronor. What Crowd didn't expect was that Eriksson agreed to his request and sent over 600,000 kronor jewellery, as well as the six hull-like warships.

The deal with Eriksson came to an end temporarily. After all, six generations of ironclad warships were converted, and six hull-like warships took some time to repair. At this time, the ocean transportation fleet of the autonomous command zone once again transported more than 300,000 Hicks military immigrants and four Hicks return home divisions, and the rest of the trip would be completed. According to the plan, the eight Hicks Homecoming Divisions will all be reduced.

"What do you mean?" Claude looked at the blood book in his hand. It should be considered a blood book, at least the name was black in the black, and the name was stained with a blood sign.

Standing in front of Claude was one of the two commanders of the eight Hicks Homecoming Divisions, General Driwick. At this moment he was flushed with some embarrassing explanations: "Honest Marshal, this blood book is the name of the officers and soldiers of the Hicks Return Home Division with their own blood-signs. Fighting on the battlefield will not hesitate to sacrifice their lives. So they wrote their blood book signatures in the hope that they would not cut down and reorganize their Hicks Returning Division ... "

Well, no need to explain, Claude suddenly realized that nothing more than the cash rewards issued a few months ago made these Hickstowns red eyes, and found that joining the army is also a very promising future. Now we are faced with reductions, withdrawals, and going back to be civilians, but we can't bear this good treatment for autonomous leaders.

If you think about it, an ordinary soldier of the Hicks Homecoming Division returned to the Hicks Kingdom, retrieved his family and relatives, and immigrated to the overseas dominion together. All expenses were reimbursed by the autonomous region. The soldiers also receive salary and welfare subsidies every month. Even if this soldier did not fire a shot in the Hicks Kingdom, which is the normal execution of a sentry post, there will be ten gold crowns in cash when he returns. How can this not be exciting?

If Gzhuang finds a job in a private workshop, it will cost two to three Intars for a month of hard work. Compared with the officers and men of the Hicks Returning Division who had arrested armed resistance elements in Wang Jing, the difference was too great. The rewards for each of those officers and soldiers are more than 30 to 40 kronor. The more battles they experience, the higher the reward. So now these Hicks soldiers are also writing blood books to serve the loyalty of overseas dominions.

Claude thought about it, thinking about commanding General Driwick: "There is also a voluntary army corps in the autonomous region, and the eight Hicks Hometown Divisions will be reduced and retired. They picked it out, selected the best and selected the best, and formed this Hicks Volunteer Corps. The establishment is the same as the Thunder and the Rock Corps, with a four division establishment and 90,000 horses. You temporarily serve as the legion leader ... "